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* EDIT: I should qualify this and say "no flavor of consumer Dolby hardware" (i.e., B, C, S, or HXPro) -- and, again, to the best of my knowledge.
Unfortunately correct, as far as I know.
But the fact that it can record directly to flash drives may eliminate the tape issue. But for those of us that have cassettes of our family history, of some of our "on the air" days, and family bands, etc, having that capability to play (with an NR system as capable as the last DOLBY's that where sold in consumer cassette decks (or studio ones) and record to flash drives would be handy. And for CD's & perhaps LP's.
Many people only think of a commercial cassette of music or someone copied an a LP to cassette. They do not think of the thousands of hours on tape of personal things.
I 9.5 MM, and 8 MM movies with titles inserted from my grandfather and my mother which documented many events (family and otherwise) from prior to WWII to now.
My family was making videos in Europe and invented some things for use in making movies well before WWII. And we have historical records that are speech, community bands that my family was involved in, etc. Getting this stuff transferred into easy to use formats can be quite difficult. So TOOLS like this can help.
Yes, cassette sound quality leaves a lot to be desired but sometimes it's all you have to work with. Not all audio is about listening to music at the best possible resolution. There are stories, events, etc that make up one's history that may be worth saving.